| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Poor excuse for an unconventional biopic.

| Original Score: C | Feb 23, 2008

Raoul Ruiz's absurdly overwrought phantasmagoria tries to recast the notorious Viennese artist's life as a kind of Divine Comedy: Inferno.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2007

The film, however provocative and full of eye candy, is really for hardcore art-house fans only.

| Oct 19, 2007

John Malkovich has virtually cornered the market on portraying aesthetes in the thrall of demonic visions. Klimt adds to his gallery of elegant monsters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 17, 2007

Klimt is a feast for the eyes and the mind.

| Oct 17, 2007

A good bio of any historical character has to have a compelling story, whether evil or good. Klimt appears to have had that story. I sure would have liked to know what it was.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 14, 2007

Ruiz is terrific in evoking a heady atmosphere of ornate fin de siecle decadence, and Malkovich is ideally cast as a coolly intellectual, free-thinking, free-living aesthete...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Klimt is obviously not a dumb film, but it is one big ol' fruitcake of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 31, 2007

Fact, fiction and chronology are juggled and blurred with such abandon that piecing it all together is bound to be a fruitless and frustrating effort.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Ruiz is so intent on harnessing the painter to his own -- here, rather arid -- relativism that he never manages to convey the unfettered eros that brings crowds flocking to exhibitions of Klimt's work, even as critics hold their noses.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2007

[It's] an eyeful.

| Aug 30, 2007

Klimt comes across as a lovely but unfathomable object, and an inadvertent case study in the argument for the ultimate integrity of Klimt's art.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 10, 2007

In the end, all the effort adds up to naught, except a hunger for the salient details the movie missed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 10, 2007

Whatever its flaws may be (and, frankly, they are legion), Raoul Ruiz's latest film is a biopic that mixes and matches visual and narrative styles boldly, wildly, madly enough to invigorate the genre, but not enough to save the movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 10, 2007

An almost unbearable collection of monologues with no regard for substantive or involving dialogue, the film sheds little or no light on the genius behind some extraordinary artwork.

| Aug 10, 2007

A handsome film, but no amount of superior art direction or glittering surface can obscure the rigor mortis that engulfs the drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2007

An easy-viewing intro to a racy episode in art history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2007

The whole dream-like effect the film strives for is undermined by the poor acting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2007